Southern Cross Group

The Southern Cross Group is a group promoting incentives for better management of private native forests in Australia.

In 2006, Matthew Warren reported that: "The Southern Cross Group is proposing conservation cropping, rather than mandatory targets, to breach an impasse between industry and environmentalists on the first code to regulate private native forests in NSW. Modelled on water's Wentworth Group, the SCG includes the World Wildlife Fund's Jeff Sayer, World Conservation Union chief scientist Jeff McNeely, forestry scientists and representatives of the farm and forestry industries."

Personnel

• Jeff Sayer, emeritus professor, Prince Bernhard Chair of International Nature Conservation
• Jeff McNeely [1], Chief Scientist, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• Jerry Vanclay [2], Professor of Sustainable Forestry, Southern Cross University
• David Kaimowitz, former Director General, Centre for International Forestry
• Heather Crompton, past President, Institute of Foresters of Australia
• Anne Gibbs, Community Natural Resource Management Support Officer
• Ian Bevege, Member, Institute of Foresters of Australia
• David Cameron, Committee Member, NSW Farmers’ Association
• David Thompson, Centre for Agricultural & Regional Economics

Other SourcWatch Resources

• WWF

External links

• Southern Cross Group report
• Matthew Warren, "Plan to pay farmers for trees", The Australian, August 29, 2006.
• Renee du Preez, "Southern Cross Group", ABC Rural, August 31, 2006.
• Cash for trees proposal to save native forests, The Northern Rivers Echo, September 21, 2006

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